Protecting Our Children; Using the Law Is the Best Way to Minimise Risk
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SURELY there is something we could have done to protect young Mark Cummings. That is the feeling that will be shared by social workers, police and the family of the eight-year-old from Royston, Glasgow. Assault, abuse and murder of a child is always shocking, but far more so when those crimes were committed by a known paedophile. It leads inevitably to questions over who, or what, was to blame. Sometimes there is no answer.
Stuart Leggate had three previous convictions for sex offences, committed in fairly quick succession in his late teens and early twenties. The offences became progressively more serious until he was sent to Peterhead Prison in 1997 after being found guilty of sexual offences involving children aged between three and 10. Here, then, was a sex offender whose convictions and experience of the justice system had failed to deter him, so much so that the violence of his crimes became worse as he grew older.See the full content of this document
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Protecting Our Children; Using the Law Is the Best Way to Minimise Risk
Yet Leggate appeared to have changed. It had been seven years since his previous offence. He had, voluntarily, taken part in the highly-regarded Stop rehabilita...
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